Frank Reginald Seely, the son of the Rt. Hon. J.E.B. Seely DSO, MP and Old Harrovian [1st Baron Mottistone, CB CMB] of 29 Chester Square,
South West London, entered Harrow School at Easter 1910 and left at Easter 1915. While here he was resident in The Head Master's boarding house and was a Monitor in 1914.
He went to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment;
in France as an A.D.C. to his father in 1916; with Regiment in 1917 and was killed in action at the Battle of Arras, on 13th April 1917.

Official information has been received at Brooke House, of the death from wounds of
Second Lieutenant Frank Reginald Seely, Hampshire Regiment, eldest son of
Brigadier-General J.B. Seely, M.P. Mr. Seely was born in 1896, and was gazetted
to a commission in the Hampshire Regiment in August 1915, and was appointed an A.D.C.
on the permanent staff in March, 1916.

ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY

Friday, April 27, 1917
Page 5

News has reached the Island that the Isle of Wight Rifles have been engaged in the recent severe fighting in the Holy Land.
A telegram received by the County Press announces that Captain Charles Seely is reported wounded and missing in the fighting in Palestine.
Captain Seely is the eldest son of Sir Charles Seely. His cousin (*) was reported killed a few days ago.